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How to Make Espresso With a French Press

Use a French Press to make Espresso at home without a machine. Use any coffee, even your favorite flavored brew.

A true Espresso is defined as a strong black coffee made by forcing steam through ground coffee beans. You will not find any definition out there that states you cannot enjoy a good espresso without this method. That would be a sad world indeed.

A “strong, black coffee” is what we’re after here, and while it may not turn out exactly as the one you had at a good restaurant and never forgot (in fact, you remember it more than the meal itself), you can fashion a very decent and satisfying espresso at home using a French press. Here is how.

Fill the bottom of the French Press with 15 grams fine-ground coffee for each shot of espresso you wish to pour. Bring the press down. Add enough hot water to submerge the grounds, plus any amount required to fill an equal space above the press. Steep 5 minutes. Serve. Experiment with steeping time.

First time using this French Press hack? Make only 1 shot and experiment with water to grounds ratio.

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Hello! I'm Sandy Riggen, owner of Brown & Jenkins Coffee Roasters, in Jeffersonville, Vermont. I grew up around great cooks. My grandmother was amazing. Everything was made from scratch. While raising my young family on Cape Cod, I started hosting small cocktail and dinner parties for friends and acquaintances. I could stay home with my kids and still pursue my passion... cooking. The parties got bigger and I soon found myself catering weddings. I continued catering for many years after moving to Vermont. Since purchasing Brown & Jenkins Coffee Roasters, I have found it is the perfect blend of doing something I love and bringing people together over food, only now my part revolves around coffee. See you at BROWNJENKINS.COM.